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| 914pipe |
 Jul 28 2018, 10:44 PM
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Say......TEEEEEEEN!!!!!  Group: Members Posts: 346 Joined: 31-July 04 From: Puerto Rico, now NC Member No.: 2,422 Region Association: South East States  |
Found out that my trailing arms bushings were shot, so I changed them and put everything back together.
  Went for a 10 min ride and about 3/4 of a mile from home I heard a "BOOM" coming from the passenger side....and almost no traction... Every time I try to move the car.... It will make a loud nice.... Long story short...Took the car home on a tow truck. Inspected the car and the passenger side inner CV joint retainer clip (cir-clip, the one that prevents the tripod come off the CV housing) was missing. No signals of it inside the boot. I did NOT remove the boot while changing the trailing arms bushings, but I might have forced a little the axles while removing the trailing arms that may could had help to misaligned the cir-clip. There were some metal shavings inside the boot. The loud noise was because the tripod was skipping over the tripod "cup" or CV joint housing... Question is.....Have this ever happen to you guys? I know that the use of tripod CV joints is the less common conversion here. Could this happen again even having the cir clip correctly installed. I put about 60 miles on this car before the trailing arm bushing installation and the car was driving pretty good with no problems or weird noises at all. Thanks in advance! Pictures for reference:   |
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| 76-914 |
Jul 29 2018, 09:04 AM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,513 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California 
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Haven't had that happen and I've got 12K on the clock. Your axles and output flanges seem to line up well. When you installed the 1/2 shafts what was the clearance between the end of the output shaft and the body of the CV?
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| 914pipe |
Jul 29 2018, 07:37 PM
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Say......TEEEEEEEN!!!!! Group: Members Posts: 346 Joined: 31-July 04 From: Puerto Rico, now NC Member No.: 2,422 Region Association: South East States |
QUOTE(76-914 @ Jul 29 2018, 08:04 AM)  Haven't had that happen and I've got 12K on the clock. Your axles and output flanges seem to line up well. When you installed the 1/2 shafts what was the clearance between the end of the output shaft and the body of the CV? I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for, but I can move the axle all the way inside the cup and if I pull it, the bearing will come out like 1/4 (10mm) approx. I'm thinking that my axles are to short and may add an Inch to each one of them. Other thing that I could try is to make a 1 inch spacer between the outer stub axle and the cv joint. Thanks for your response!!! |
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914pipe Suby Guys, question about tripod inner cv joints Jul 28 2018, 10:44 PM
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Haven't had that happen and I've got 12K... Jul 30 2018, 08:08 AM mgp4591 If your drive train is bolted in place and the out... Jul 31 2018, 03:50 PM
Amenson I had that happen with my first set of axles that ... Jul 29 2018, 01:33 PM tazz9924
I had that happen with my first set of axles that... Jul 29 2018, 04:11 PM 914pipe
I had that happen with my first set of axles that... Jul 29 2018, 07:43 PM BIGKAT_83
I had that happen with my first set of axles tha... Jul 30 2018, 07:16 PM 914pipe
[quote name='914pipe' post='2633586' date='Jul 29... Jul 30 2018, 09:38 PM 914pipe
[quote name='914pipe' post='2633586' date='Jul 29... Jan 2 2019, 11:55 PM tazz9924
I had that happen with my first set of axles that... Jan 3 2019, 03:15 AM Chris H.
I had that happen with my first set of axles tha... Jan 3 2019, 08:47 AM rnellums +1 on axles being too short. They should be long e... Jul 29 2018, 08:05 PM flmont The last time we heard from 914pipe,..he was kinda... Jul 30 2018, 06:49 PM 914pipe
The last time we heard from 914pipe,..he was kind... Jul 30 2018, 09:36 PM Chi-town Axle shaft was too short. The clip is only meant t... Jan 3 2019, 11:36 AM |
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